Bangalore’s Moody Weather: How It’s Messing with Your Health & What to Do About It! 🍃

As Bangalore transitions into drier and warmer weather, many of us (children and children at heart) are experiencing health issues related to increased dryness and dust in the air. This shift affects not just comfort but also overall well-being, leading to various ailments.

Common Health Issues During This Weather Change

1. Dryness-Related Symptoms

   • Dry Nose, Mouth & Eyes: Many people experience a parched sensation, often accompanied by a burning or gritty feeling in the eyes.

   • Skin & Hair Dryness: The reduced humidity can strip moisture from the skin, leading to itching, flaking, and roughness. Hair becomes frizzy and brittle.

2. Allergic Reactions

   • Increased Dust in the Air: With drier conditions, dust particles remain suspended longer, worsening allergies and respiratory issues.

   • Nasal Congestion & Sneezing: Allergic rhinitis can flare up due to dust mites, pollen, or pollutants.

   • Itchy Throat & Cough: The dry air irritates the throat, leading to persistent coughing.

3. Respiratory Issues

   • Asthma & Bronchitis Flare-Ups: Dry air can aggravate conditions like asthma, causing wheezing and breathlessness.

   • Increased Risk of Infections: Cold-like symptoms, sinusitis, and throat infections are more common due to the dry, dusty air.

4. Dehydration & Fatigue

   • People often drink less water in cooler weather, leading to dehydration, headaches, and fatigue.

🌬️ Why Do We Experience Dryness & Allergies During Weather Changes?

1. Seasonal Aggravation – Seasonal dryness impacts the body's moisture balance, due to increased susceptibility to seasonal change, thats subject to one's bio-individuality.

2. Lower Immunity – Sudden weather shifts weaken the immune system, making us susceptible to allergies, colds, and respiratory issues.

3. Skin & Mucosal Dryness – Dry air reduces moisture in the skin, eyes, nose, and throat, leading to irritation and susceptibility to infections.

4. Allergic Reactions – Dust, pollen, and pollution trigger respiratory symptoms like sneezing, congestion, and itchy eyes.

How to Stay Healthy During This Transition

✅ Stay Hydrated: Sip warm water or herbal teas like Tulsi, Ginger, or Licorice tea  and warm soups through the day, to maintain moisture balance.

✅ Moisturize & Protect Your Skin & Hair: Use a gentle, hydrating moisturizer for skin and oil for hair to prevent excessive dryness. Massage your body with coconut oil or mustard oil before bathing to nourish the skin. Use aloe vera gel or coconut oil post bath to retain skin hydration. Apply hibiscus-infused oil for dry hair and scalp nourishment.

✅ Protect Your Nose : Nasal Lubrication commonly known as Nasya in Ayurveda, can help ease the discomfort. Apply a few drops of warm ghee or mustard oil in the nostrils to prevent dryness & irritation.

✅ Reduce Dust Exposure: Keep windows closed during peak dusty hours, use air purifiers, and wear a mask when outside.

✅ Humidify Your Space: Place a bowl of water near heaters or use a humidifier to maintain indoor moisture levels.

✅ Optimise your Immunity: Include Vitamin C-rich foods, honey, haldi doodh or turmeric milk, and also your customised homeopathic remedies along with some immune-system regulators like Echinacea augustifolia, Avena sativa or Alfalfa.

✅ Steam Inhalation: Add eucalyptus oil to hot water and inhale steam to relieve dry nose & throat. Plain water also works.

✅ Dietary Adjustments:

• Favor warm, oily, and moist foods like khichdi, ghee, nuts, and soups.

• Include dates, figs, and soaked almonds to retain internal moisture.

• Reduce dry, crunchy, cold, and overly spicy foods that increase dryness.

All said and done, some practises can optimise your responses to seasonal changes, such as :

🛌 Ensure quality sleep – it helps in body repair and hydration.

🌞 Get morning sunlight for immunity and warmth.

🧘‍♂️ Practice gentle yoga & Pranayama (like Anulom Vilom) to breathe easy, release toxins and enhance overall lung health.

The seasonal transition is inevitable, but our body's ability to adapt determines whether we remain healthy or experience discomfort. Homeopathy focuses on enhancing the body's natural defenses while addressing symptoms at their root.

💊 Homeopathic Remedies for Seasonal Dryness & Allergies

🔹 Bryonia Alba – Extreme dryness of mucous membranes (nose, throat, eyes), with thirst for large amounts of water. Useful for dry cough and cracked lips.

🔹 Natrum Mur – Dry, chapped lips, dry mouth, and excessive sneezing with watery discharge turning thick later.

🔹 Arsenicum Album – Burning sensation in the throat, nose, or eyes due to dust allergies. Helps with wheezing and seasonal respiratory discomfort.

🔹 Histaminum - All symptoms of the skin and mucous membranes in allergic types. Dryness of the mucous membranes. Redness and burning sensation in circumscribed areas of the skin. Red, itching papules.

🔹Sticta pulmonaria: Offers a set of symptoms like coryza, bronchial catarrh and influenza, together with nervous and rheumatic disturbances. Feeling of fullness int he root of nose, and allergic rhinitis. Patient has the need to blow the nose, but ‘no’ discharge.

🔹 Nux Vomica – Dryness caused by exposure to cold wind, environmental pollutants, or dietary imbalances. Also relieves stuffy nose at night and sneezing in the morning.

🔹 Kali Bichromicum – Thick, sticky nasal mucus, postnasal drip, and sinus congestion with dryness in the nose.

🔹 Petroleum – Cracked, dry, rough skin that worsens in winter. Ideal for chapped lips and eczema due to seasonal change.

Consult a Homeopath today, and get your customised Homeopathic Remedy and it’s right dosage. 🌿✨

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